Summary
Ian Brison is an Advanced Engineer based in Tokyo with 10 years of experience building and operating high-throughput payment systems and developer platforms. He leads cross-functional teams (10+ engineers) and has driven architecture and DevOps improvements at scale—supporting a cart system that handles over 50,000 daily transactions and cutting CI/CD cost and deployment time dramatically. Deeply influenced by design-first thinking, Kaizen, and domain knowledge, he combines PHP backend expertise (CakePHP, Laravel), MySQL, Redis and AWS with practical SRE practices like Sentry, NewRelic and GitLab/GitHub Actions. Ian is effective at persuading leadership to invest in core teams and tooling, and he’s known for creating low-noise, high-signal alerting that surfaces half of cart incidents instantly. He enjoys mentoring others on clean architecture and OOP while continually improving operations to accelerate development.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Doshisha University
Japanese, English